Declan was receptive enough to notice that something was off. He asked with furrowed eyebrows, “What is going on?”

Brendan placed his phone on the table and lit a cigarette. He narrowed his eyes and looked into the dark night and plants blowing in the wind outside the window, surrounded by smoke. His heart, which was boiling over with pain, only calmed down gradually at this very moment.

“I bailed out Charlene.”

Declan did not pay much attention to the case because he had more important task